Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a tense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States over the Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba. The crisis began on October 14, 1962 and lasted for 38 days until November 20, 1962. It is regarded as the moment when the Cold War was closest to becoming nuclear war, and which could have turned into World War III. The Russians refer to the Cuban Missile Crisis as the "Caribbean Crisis" and the Cubans refer to it as the "October Crisis".

External links

• Declassified Documents, etc. - Provided by the National Security Archive.
• Transcripts and Audio of ExComm meetings - Provided by the Miller Center's Presidential Recordings Program, University of Virginia.
• Forty Years After 13 Days - Robert S. McNamara.
• Thirteen Days
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• Tapes of debates between JFK and his advisors during the crisis
• SS-4 Missile
• SS-5 Missile
• Cuban Missile Crisis Reunion, October 2002